Websites for review to update Sweet Home Special Education website

1. Amherst Central Schools www.amherstschools.org

a. Comprehensive site with many links
b. Contact page,
c. CSE,
d. CPSE,
e. 504,
f. (Brief)FAQs,
g. Acronyms list,
h. SpEd Services defined,
i. Student Services,
j. Home Tutoring (Instruction),
k. Parent Information & References,
l. Other Resources
2. Clarence Central Schools www.clarenceschools.org
a. Great FAQs page
b. Local State and National Resources
c. Definition of LRE
d. Learning Disabilities
e. Facts on Disabilities
f. CSE Parent Member Training
3. Depew Central Schools www.depewschools.org
a. Info page includes commitment statement
b. Cheesy list of services offered, with no detail,
c. Vague page about Determining Special Education Placement
d. Web resources page is crappy
e. SEQA definition page
4. Frontier Central Schools www.frontier.wnyric.org
a. Awful site, only contact info, merely links to other sites
b. NOTHING INCLUDED IN BINDER TO REFERENCE FOR THIS SCHOOL.
5. Grand Island Central Schools www.k12.ginet.org
a. Different types of links from other Pupil Services websites such as Title
IX, See example.
b. Good Parent Info Page good overview of IDEA and student rights.
6. Hamburg Central Schools www.hamburgschools.org
a. Called Pupil Services
b. RTI/SST Page
c. Crappy Parent Resources Page
d. Parent Guide to Special Education with school info then link to NYSED site
e. Common Terms page, With link to NYSED page
f. Definitions of NYSAA, With link to NYSED Parent guide page.
g. Anti-bullying and Autism pages added, some vague.
7. Iroquois Central Schools www.iroquoiscsd.org
a. Called Student Services & Assessment
b. NOTHING INCLUDED IN BINDER TO REFERENCE FOR THIS SCHOOL.
8. Kenmore Town of Tonawanda www.kenton.k12.ny.us
a. Has almost verbatim CSE information as Amherst Central, Same
Philosophy.
b. Has more indepth CPSE information page
c. Transition Page merely has links to other places.
9. Lakeshore Central Schools www.lakeshore.wnyric.org
a. (Brief) Parent Links page
b. HUGE detailed Transition pages
10. Lancaster Central Schools www.lancasterschools.org
a. Website Blank
b. NOTHING INCLUDED IN BINDER TO REFERENCE FOR THIS SCHOOL.
11. Starpoint Central Schools www.starpointcsd.org
a. Website merely has link to director, and programs offered, copy included
herein because it is similar to ours.
12. Tonawanda Central Schools www.tonawandacsd.org
a. Awfully messy intro/contact page, Message From Director blank page,
RTI is a mere definition.
b. Links to State Eds Due Process info
c. MULTIPLE Pages are blank.
13. West Seneca Central Schools www.wscschools.org
a. Main info page links to Special Education/Pupil Services includes Military
opt-out, Legal notices, Code of Conduct, AIS, Attendance Policy,
b. Website does put up a warning that when user clinks on a link that will
take them from the West Seneca Schools site, legally states that they are
not responsible for content.
14. Williamsville Central Schools www.williamsvillek12.org
a. When Exceptional Education is selected, the screen is blank.
b. Special Education main page has direct link to NYS Procedural
Safeguards notice, also contains simple statement regarding definition of
CSE and 504 but no contact information exists at all.
c. More focus on Assistive Technology due to a grant they received.